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Comment by lxgr

12 hours ago

I'm not saying that this isn't "true idling", I'm saying that idling H200s simply don't exist, i.e., I disagree with B. Do you, A, even disagree?

> they are either wasting energy sitting idle or doing barely useful work

Now here's a true (inverse) scotsman, or more accurately, a moved goalpost: Work on things you don't deem valuable is basically the same thing as idling?

> We'll cook ourselves, anyway. Why bother? Enjoy the sauna. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm very concerned about that too, but I don't think we'll avoid the sauna with fatalism or logically unsound appeals to morality about resource consumption.